StorageQuest Appoints Data Distributing as its Healthcare Market Distributor
Partnership Strengthens StorageQuest’s Presence in Healthcare and Medical Imaging Storage Applications
Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) July 26, 2005 -- StorageQuest Inc., the leader in
network attached optical storage management, today announced it has partnered
with Data Distributing LLC a value added distributor with 20 years of experience
in the medical imaging industry, to distribute its line of MSM 150 storage
management appliances. The MSM 150 is a new and innovative open system-based
solution that simplifies how businesses acquire, deploy and manage archival
information.
“StorageQuest is very pleased to announce it has formed a
partnership with Data Distributing after many months of searching for the right
partner to represent our networked based archival solutions in the Healthcare
market. With more than 20 years of delivering storage solution to the Healthcare
market, Data Distributing’s extensive expertise in solutions for archival
storage, based upon optical technology, clearly placed them at the top of our
list as the best partner to represent our company and products," said Fred
Bedard, StorageQuest’s Vice President of Sale & Marketing. “Data
Distributing existing product portfolio of complementary technology is perfectly
aligned with our MSM 150 appliance which will enable them to bring
state-of-the-art network attached archival solutions to meet the growing PACS,
Medical Imaging and ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) requirements within
the Healthcare marketplace.”
“The Healthcare industry is a leading
implementer of archival storage solutions for patient records and medical
images. Established industry standards like PACS (Picture Archival and
Communication System) and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA are driving the
requirements for open archival solutions which are network attached.
StorageQuest has delivered an optical archive appliance, capable of managing
data from; Windows, Linux, UNIX and MAC OS X systems and archiving it in an open
standard, compliant environment. With the inclusion of FTP, this is truly a
unique, secure storage appliance” said Nancy Fisher, President & CEO of Data
Distributing. “We believe the solution will allow simpler deployments of optical
archive solutions, and reduce the cost-resistance often encountered with
standard server and library management software based solutions; Fisher
continued… We can truly expect to see ‘plug ‘n’ play’ archive storage
applications as well as much shorter installation and deployment times. We are
delighted to work with StorageQuest representing them in the Healthcare
Marketplace.”
About StorageQuest
Since its inception in 1998,
StorageQuest has pioneered technology, product, and open solutions that continue
to drive the evolution of Net-attached optical storage. StorageQuest storage
solutions include; network attached appliances, storage management software and
services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments.
StorageQuest, Inc. is headquartered in Ottawa, ON Canada; www.StorageQuest.com.
About Data
Distributing
Founded in 1984, Data Distributing LLC, has earned praise and
respect, providing a broad range of cost effective DICOM, PACS, media and
archival solutions. Headquartered in California, Data Distributing delivers
aggressively-priced, leading-edge technology to customers throughout the world.
Service. Storage. Solutions. – Data Distributing, LLC. Additional information
may be found at: http://www.datadistributing.com
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